January draws to a close (already!!) and it is time for me to own up. I’ve been experimenting on you. Sorry about that but, on the bright side, it’s not like some weird alien abduction involving probes and brain washing.

In fact, if I’m honest, it’s only really occurred to me these past couple of days that I’ve been experimenting.

I’ve been posting to this blog for a very long time and it’s fair to say, and indeed I did say it, that my blogging mojo was slowly eroding. To try and see if it was just laziness I decided that I’d try and post every single day for at least the month of January, and then see how I felt.

This is contrary to most of the advice and reassurance I was given, which largely boiled down to the fact that I need only post when I wanted to and that the lovely, smart, beautiful people who read this blog would be quite happy.

Quality not quantity they said.

Pfffftttt, I said.

Which brings us right up to date.

Putting aside the part of me that writes all this for the sheer fun of it, I turn to my stats. Surely with a more regular stream of content, my stats would be on the rise? I may it stands to reason, doesn’t it?

You’d think.

It hasn’t. Not one jot. My average (130 visits a day) remains as it was throughout all of last year. Flat, static, constant.

Mind you, I don’t actually know how many people read the posts via RSS (dear people who make clever website stats thingies, can’t I get ONE single via of all the consumers of my content?). I’m an avid RSS user myself and I know how often, on average, I actually click through to read a website

So I’d like to extend my experiment a little. For today only, could I trouble you, dearest RSS reader, to click through to the website? You don’t have to leave a comment, just load up the website if you read this post.

I’ll post before and after stats, so come on people LET’S MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!

I’m an Rss’er. I only click through to make a comment- but I’ve read every one of your Jan posts ,although since we’re all fessing up here, I did skim read the one you wrote about your phone as I’m the sort of person who uses her mobile phones for calls only (and that’s only when I remember to take it with me…)

I read by RSS. However I haven’t been reading you lately because I like to comment on your blogs and have mainly been reading on the move (iPhone) or when eating lunch. So pick blogs to read that I wouldn’t comment on. Mainly work stuff.

I still plan to read the 14 or so I have stacked up. However if I’m really behind on my blogs, I tend to skim everything.

I came to this post by MikeTDs twitter. So I’m not sure where the count counts.

I read by RSS too, and it’s a bit of a pain in the ass commenting from NetNewsWire on my iPhone, which is where I do most of my reading at the moment. I only tend to comment these days if I’ve got something REALLY interesting to say, or if I’m tipsy and think what I’m going to comment is funny (it usually turns out not to be).

Actually, I’m sort of cheating with the RSS thing because I look at your stuff in GReader and I’ve got a FF extension for it – Better GReader – which means I can click through to your site in a frame within GReader. But I only ever do that for people’s sites if I want to leave a comment …

Wish I could have forced myself to post every day in January. I’ve come to to a total standstill!